Essays on the Eighteenth Century: Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday |
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... Addison . The grandeur of ' cynical asperity ' is a flower that grows only in a tropical climate , and in passing to Addison's world we pass to a world where such things are im- possible . Surly virtue is not cheerful nor equable : in ...
... Addison . The grandeur of ' cynical asperity ' is a flower that grows only in a tropical climate , and in passing to Addison's world we pass to a world where such things are im- possible . Surly virtue is not cheerful nor equable : in ...
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... Addison ushered in , England was going to attend more and more seriously to the Freeports , and the de Coverleys ... Addison's party was bringing in is henceforth seen through a mist of smiling tenderness - as an archaism , a lovely ...
... Addison ushered in , England was going to attend more and more seriously to the Freeports , and the de Coverleys ... Addison's party was bringing in is henceforth seen through a mist of smiling tenderness - as an archaism , a lovely ...
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... Addison . As writers of English prose Addison and Johnson belong to two distinct traditions : the reader to whom they address themselves and their way of approaching him are both different . It was Addison's aim , as he tells us , to ...
... Addison . As writers of English prose Addison and Johnson belong to two distinct traditions : the reader to whom they address themselves and their way of approaching him are both different . It was Addison's aim , as he tells us , to ...
Contents
DAVID NICHOL SMITH From a drawing by SIR MUIRHEAD BONE Frontispiece | 15 |
DEANE SWIFT HAWKESWORTH AND THE JOURNAL TO STELLA HAROLD WILLIAMS | 33 |
POPE AT WORK GEORGE SHERBURN Harvard University | 65 |
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